... I LPITORIE OF FORBIGN AND GENERAL NEWS THE senior class of Harvard college has chosen for orator on class day one of its two -negro members. He is named Clement Garrett Morgan, and his father was a Virginia slave set free by Lincoln's Emancipa- t on proclamation. INTELLIE scE received from Bremen states that the German steamer Marcobrunner, from Bremen for Calcatta, ran ashore in ?? Sea. ,The ...

... | A cage in descending the Silkitone pit, Newland colieries, Normanton, yesterday morning stuck fast when a little more thn~halt-way down, and then upset.T The three oecupants were thrown out, and fell a distance of 200 yards to the bottom of the Shaft, all of them being instantly killed. Two COLLIERS KILLEcD-Yesterday morning Thomas Crossland, miner, living at Stairfoot, was killed by a fall ...

... FRAWCE.-Upwards of 180 second bailots took place in France on SundayM 1. Yves Guyot, Minister ofPubliFWorks, w as returned in the First Arrondisse- rnent in the Department of the Seine; and 1. Voustans at Toulouse. The number of Boulangists eleoted In Paris was larze, but M. Rochefort did not secare a seat at Belleville. It appears that the new French Chamber will eonsist of 364 Republicans ...

... .Although the triumph of the Republicans at the French elections may be regarded as a material guarantee of peace for some time to come, yet there is a feverish uneasiness on the Continent, which shows that men have no faith in the power of the present rulers of Europe to avert another great war. Lord Salisbury has expressed his belief in the since- rity of their pacific desires, and their ...

... SMU:S8 75 QA 0)3'6R0Z. During the iast few weeks several scenes of an extraordinary character have been witnes!.od in the Chatteris (Cambridgeshire) parish church, which, have been watohed with considerable interest by tie residents in the village, and have created not a little scandal ia the county. The parties to the squabble are the vicar of the parish and Mr. H-teury 13keels, a resident, ...

... TZEl ELEClTIONS.-GREbEAT LIBlERAL VICTORIES. PETERBOROUGIH. Polling took place on Monday at Peterborough. Great excitement prevailed, the interest manifested being far greater than in 1885 orlS80. The result was declared as follows : Mr. Morton (G. L.) .1,893 Mr. Purvis (L. U.) .. .. . 1,041 Gladstonian majority . 251 In 1S85 the result waso-Mr. Fitzwilliam, 1,853; Mr. Sydney Buxton, 1,595; ...

... | XDvaR8 07 LBOOSE IN PORIMO I . . . . COUNTRUAx lMU:1;. A return just issued in pursuance of an address from the House of Commons throws considerable light on the question of working hours in Europe and the United States. The information is obtained, from her e.jesty's representatives in the various countries dealt with, and has special reference to the laws affect- ing the hours of adult ...

... The tercentenary of the Armada, which was cele- brated last year, afforded Mr Augustus Harris the necessary opportunity of breaking the continuity of productions depending for their attractions on modern realism. The change of the scene of dramatic action to the more romantic times of Elizabeth was then found very welcome, and the lessee of the National Theatre having started successfully in a ...

... PROPOSED INCREASED FEE FOR LICENCES. On Tuesday, at the meeting of the London County Council in the Guildhall Chamber (Lord Rosebery pre- siding), a short discussion arose out of the follawing proposal on the agenda paper in the name of Mr H. H. Marks: .-That the Parliamentary committee be instructed to take steps to procure powers for the Council to levy a fee of not less than 1 or more than ...

... M&TI$OjOLOG1OA6L REPORZ DAILY NEWSY OPIX. RUADflW8 TaIS XO=NZ By NEGEPZI' AND ZANMRA'S BARONMWE&R SUN, 20. , MON. 21. TUE. 22. WED. 2L - ?? S.W. i_-V. | - 8. - | t4,iw _ 6 _ 46 _ _ 4 K ~- - ?? 30 3 ?? s- so- a- * 09 2 (ks'redd to a-i6e and a rdutd to 32 dee. F. Tha bloklts show tho hft t of the barom1eter at 1 o'clock on Toe ?? ?? te ?? Tm i in the two airoat 05e5. Tbo initia mains at 1h of ...

... About 1,250 minirters ad deleates from all parts of the country axn gathering thus week in Bir- mnhmin Conwdton with the autumn meetings of f the Bats t Union of Great Britain and Ireland. 0 Undaathe superintendence of a local committee, with v havbet eemade onn elaborate scalefor the comfort rg and cenvemeno of those attending thatherinugs. By P the kinduess of Mr. Riabard Cadbury a. central ...

... LETT1'ERS TO THE EDITOR. B MR. BALFOUR AND THE STATUTE OF EDWARD 1II. SIR,-In consequence of a short absence from Englaud I missed reading until yesterday Mr. Balfour's recent speech at Manchester, and his reference to myself in connection with the imprisonments under the Statute of Edward III. Mr. Baliour, with hia accus- tomed sneer, says that I have a passion for returns. I have moved ...